Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Free patterns but ONLY for you Twitter home pages are available in Twitterpatterns.

The icons slash characters in this Japanese web site related to environmental education in the city of Kunisaki, deserve a honorable mention.

Tab navigation in Web Agency Sunrise Design is well evidenced by the use of icons and ample spacing.

Spokeo’ price plan: a search engine to find people in the most popular social networking and public databases. 
Interesting the idea of giving evidence and distinguish a button overlaying a badge.

CoTweet is a platform designed for companies that, through Twitter, want to manage existing customers and possibly attract new ones. 
The button to request product’s beta is huge, but welll integrated in the whole visual treatment.

Nice gray-magenta color association for this alphabetical listing.

Impeccable typography in Monocle, a magazine about politics, business, culture and design, conceived by the founder of Wallpaper, Tyler Brûlé. 
Obviously the use of  typographical weights winks to print design with a classy result.

So you want to create a logo in pure Twitter style? Twitlogo is the online application for you: a simple form with some adjustable parameters (hidden in the advanced options) to create lettering and logos à la Twitter.

Creative Depart is, like Behance, a community of creatives, illustrators and graphic the have  the opportunity to show their works. 
The navigation menu is very interesting because of it is that dynamically change the content below.

The Glasgow Collective is a gallery that contains works by students of Glasgow School of Art 
The web site is well done and the breadcrumbs are well set: the claim “you are here” immediately attracts the eye and the shape of arrows is pleasant. 
On the other hand, I don’t find proper using the same shape both [...]

An example of minimal paging, without numbers, in Josh Smith’s online portfolio.

Checkmycolours is a tool that allows you to analyze the color contrast in web pages elements. Very useful for all web designers.

Jokeyphone is an application, still in Beta, with which you can see users video-recorded jokes, create channels, participate in contest and possibly upload your own jokes. 
The flash menu is funnny: iconsand the  slight mouse over animation are very enjoyable.

I’m not pretending to discover anything new, but the thumb icon in Digg has to be in our collection of rating systems.